Le Roy and Duret Company - Revision history

Darryl: /* Fifth Cape Town Season (a new company, September 1867- August 1868) */

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Fifth Cape Town Season (a new company, September 1867- August 1868)

Satj: /* Fifth Season (a new company, September 1867- August 1868) */

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Fifth Season (a new company, September 1867- August 1868)

Satj: /* Fourth season (Mrs Duret, June to September, 1867) */

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Fourth season (Mrs Duret, June to September, 1867)

Satj: /* Third Season: "Le Roy's Original Company", January to May, 1867 */

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Third Season: "Le Roy's Original Company", January to May, 1867

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Second season (June - November, 1866)

Satj: /* Initial season, Port Elizabeth (November and December 1865) */

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Initial season, Port Elizabeth (November and December 1865)

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The company

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 ===Fifth Cape Town Season (a new company, September 1867- August 1868)===
-This was their final season and ran from 25 September 1867 to 14 August 1868, the first part till March of 1868 initially in the [[Theatre Royal]], later (January to March, 1868) in the [[Commercial Exchange]] and the [[Mutual Hall]], after the theatre had burnt down in Jannuary. Then followed the second, shorter, part of the season, with a "scratch company", utilising local amateurs, which ran from 4 May till 14 August 1868, performing in the [[Oddfellows Hall]].
+This was their final season and ran from 25 September 1867 to 14 August 1868, the first part till March of 1868 initially in the [[Theatre Royal]], later (January to March, 1868) in the [[Commercial Exchange]] and the [[Mutual Hall]], after the theatre had burnt down in Jannuary. Then followed the second, shorter, part of the season, with a "[[scratch company]]", utilising local amateurs, which ran from 4 May till 14 August 1868, performing in the [[Oddfellows Hall]].
 Besides their own productions, the company also participated in a few charitable events, such as  a ''[[Great Promenade Concert]]'' in support of the Good Hope Lodge, held in the [[Good Hope Gardens]] on 7 February, and included a performance of their "celebrated ''[[Shadow Pantomime]]'' as lately produced at the [[Theatre Royal]]". The concert also involved the [[9th Regiment]] sand the military band led by [[Signor Bonicoli]].

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 The short season included productions of ''[[Governor von Brute, or Things as They Might Have Been]]'' (Mollan), ''[[Mr and Mrs Peter White]]'' (Raymond), ''[[A Dead Shot]]'' (Buckstone), ''[[Faint Heart Did Win Fair Lady]]'' (Wooler), ''[[The Sea of Ice]]'' (D'Ennery and Dugué/Robertson), ''[[Bombastes Furioso]]'' (Rhodes), ''[[A Match in the Dark]]'' (Dance), ''[[The Four Sisters]]'' (Bernard), ''[[Was I to Blame?]]'' (Rodwell), ''[[The Maid and the Magpie]]'' (Caigniez and d'Aubigny/Byron), "''[[A Price for an Hour]]''" (i.e. ''[[A Prince for an Hour]]'', by Morton), scenes from ''[[Hamlet]]'' (Shakespeare), ''[[The Actress of all Work]]'' (Oxberry), ''[[Macbeth Travestie]]'' (Talfourd), ''[[Shylock Burlesque]]'' (Talfourd), ''[[The Area Belle]]'' (Brough and Halliday), ''[[The Isle of St. Tropez]]'' (Williams and Burnand) and ''[[Box and Cox]]'' (Morton).
-===Fifth Season (a new company, September 1867- August 1868)===
+===Fifth Cape Town Season (a new company, September 1867- August 1868)===
 This was their final season and ran from 25 September 1867 to 14 August 1868, the first part till March of 1868 initially in the [[Theatre Royal]], later (January to March, 1868) in the [[Commercial Exchange]] and the [[Mutual Hall]], after the theatre had burnt down in Jannuary. Then followed the second, shorter, part of the season, with a "scratch company", utilising local amateurs, which ran from 4 May till 14 August 1868, performing in the [[Oddfellows Hall]].

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 ''[[The Green Bushes]]'' (Buckstone), ''[[Found in a Four-Wheeler]]'' (Williams), ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' (Hugo/Weston), ''[[Mrs Green's Snug Little Business]]'' (Cheltnam), ''[[Cramond Brig]]'' (Murray), ''[[The Octoroon]]'' (Boucicault), ''[[An April Fool]]'' (Halliday and Brough), ''[[Leah the Forsaken, or The Jewish Maiden's Wrongs]]'' (Mosenthal/Daly), ''[[The Legend of St Croix]]'' (Anon.), ''[[The Weft of the Wish-ton-Wish]]'' (Cooper/Bernard), ''[[The Miller and His Men]]'' (Talfourd and Byron), ''[[Catching an Heiress]]'' (Selby), ''[[Ireland as It Is]]'' (Amherst), ''[[Municipal Muddles, or Love in the Dark]]'' (Utting), ''[[Margate Sands]]'' (Hancock), ''[[A Terrible Secret]]'' (Waldron), ''[[My Wife's Second Floor]]'' (Morton), ''[[Aurora Floyd]]'' (Braddon,''et al.''), ''[[The French Spy]]'' (Haines), ''[[Betsy Baker]]'' (Morton), ''[[The Alabama]]'' (Morton), ''[[The Ticket of Leave Man]]'' (Taylor), ''[[Which Shall I Marry?]]'' (Suter), ''[[The Robber's Family]]'' (Anon./Pocock?), ''[[The Fantoccini Family]]'' (Ray), ''[[Aladdin, or The Wonderful Scamp]]'' (Byron), ''[[Capitola, or The Masked Mother and The Hidden Hand]]'' (Hazlewood) and ''[[Poor Pillicoddy]]'' (Morton).
-===Fourth season ([[Mrs Duret]], June to September, 1867)===
+===Fourth Cape Town season ([[Mrs Duret]], June to September, 1867)===
 This season ran from 10 June to 17 September 1867, the theatre and company under the sole management of [[Mrs Duret]], while [[Le Roy]] was in England to find new players. She used the time to upgrade the theatre to some extent, including removing the "incommodious and unsightly private boxes" on the side of the auditorium, and putting it all in the dress circle, which now sported "(p)rivate (or stage) boxes, dress circle stalls, pit and gallery".

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 The repertoire in this season included one or more performances of (or scenes or acts from) ''[[Good for Evil, or A Wife's Trial]]'' (Augier), ''[[The Actress of All Work]]'' (Oxberry), ''[[Hunting a Turtle]]'' (Selby), ''[[The Queen of the Abruzzi]]'' (Anon.), ''[[Is She a Woman?]]'' (Anon.), ''[[Charles the Second, or The Merry Monarch]]'' (Duval/Payne), ''[[Black Ey'd Susan]]'' (Jerrold), ''[[The Flying Dutchman]]'' (Fitzball), ''[[Winning a Husband]]'' (Buckstone), ''[[The Waterman]]'' (Dibdin), ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' (Hugo/Weston), ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' (Shakespeare), ''[[Fazio, or The Italian Wife's Revenge]]'' (Milman), ''[[The Turned Head]]'' (à Beckett), ''[[The Soldier's Daughter]]'' (Cherry), ''[['Tis She, or Maid, Wife and Widow]]'' (Wilks),  ''[[The Flowers of the Forest]]'' (Buckstone), ''[[Easy Shaving]]'' (Burnand and Williams), ''[[The Roll of the Drum]]'' (Wilks), ''[[The Four Sisters]]'', ''[[The Mutiny at the Nore]]'' (Jerrold), ''[[On the Sly]]'' (Morton), a ''[[Great Comic Shadow Pantomime]]'' ([[Le Roy and Duret]]), ''[[Lilian Gervais]]'' (Barnett), ''[[Where's Your Wife?]]'' (Bridgeman), ''[[The Demon of the Forest, or Cassander a Cooper]]'' (Anon.), ''[[The Wraith of Table Mountain]]'' (Mollan), ''[[Retribution]]'' (Taylor), ''[[The Dancing Scotchman, or Love in all Corners]]'' (Flexmore and Auriol), ''[[Plot and Passion]]'' (Taylor and Lang), ''[[On the Sly]]'' (Morton), ''[[The Nervous Cures]]'' (Brown and Norton), ''[[Rob Roy]]'' (Scott), ''[[Bachelor's Buttons]]'' (Stirling), ''[[Behind Time]]'' (Webster), ''[[Governor van Noot, or Things as They Were]]'' (Utting), ''[[The Little Sentinel]]'' (Williams), ''[[Jocrisse the Juggler]]'' (D'Ennery and Bresil), ''[[Don Juan]]'' (De Molina, ''et al.''), ''[[Pizarro]]'' (Kotzebue/Sheridan), ''[[Faint Heart (Which) Did Win (a) Fair Lady]]'' (Wooler), ''[[A Ticket of Leave]]'' (Phillips ), ''[[Look Before You Leap]]'' (Lovell), ''[[The Two Galley Slaves]]'' (Ducange), ''[[Who Killed Cock Robin?]]'' (Matthews), ''[[Left the Stage, or Thornton Worrying Le Roy]]'' (the cast), ''[[A Bachelor of Arts]]'' (Hardwicke) and ''[[Cramond Brig, or The Gudeman of Ballangrich]]'' (Scott/Murray).
-===Third Season: "[[Le Roy's Original Company]]", January to May, 1867===
+===Third Cape Town Season: "[[Le Roy's Original Company]]", January to May, 1867===
 This season , which was in some ways a way a continuation of the second, ran from 3 January to 28 May, 1867. The company apparently enhanced by the return of some of the former players, and in particular strengthened by the work of the actor and scenarist [[R.S. Cooper]]. The theatre used was now renamed the [[Theatre Royal]] in Harrington Street, and the repertoire included one or more performances of (or scenes or acts from) the following plays:

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 This season ran from 29 January to 24 May of 1866 in the newly renovated [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, and included one or more performances of ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' (Weston), ''[[A Duel in the Dark]]'' (Coyne), ''[[The Soldier's Daughter]]'' (Cherry), ''[[Hunting a Turtle]]'' (Selby), ''[[Fazio, or The Italian Wife's Revenge]]'' (Milman), ''[[The Creole]]'' (Brooks),  ''[[The Four Sisters, or Woman's Worth and Woman's Wrongs]]'' (Bernard), ''[[Medea]]'' (Euripides), ''[[Turn Him Out]]'' (Williams), ''[[The Momentous Question, or Woman's Devotion]]'' (Fitzball), ''[[Captain Charlotte, or Hearts and Trumps]]'' (Stirling?/Lemon?), ''[[The Lady of Lyons]]'' (Bulwer-Lytton/Byron), ''[[The Married Rake]]'' (Selby), ''[[The French Spy, or The Wild Arab of the Desert]]'' (Aubert), ''[[The Actress of All Work]]'' (Oxberry), ''[[Winning a Husband]]'' (Buckstone), ''[[Camille or Traviata]]'' (Dumas), ''[[Love in Humble Life]]'' (Scribe and Dupin/Payne), ''[[The Dear Admiral]]'' (Anon.), ''[[The Stranger]]'' (Von Kotzebue), ''[[The Area Belle]]'' (Brough and Halliday), ''[[Look Before You Leap]]'' (Lovell), ''[[A Devilish Good Joke, or A Night's Frolic]]'' (Higgie), ''[[The Bride of Lammermoor]]'' (Scott/ Calcraft), ''[[Sam's Arrival]]'' (Oxenford), ''[[Still Waters Run Deep]]'' (Taylor), ''[[The Green Bushes]]'' (Buckstone), ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' (Shakespeare), ''[[A Day After the Wedding]]'' (Kemble), ''[[The Octoroon, or Life in Louisiana]]'' (Boucicault) and ''[[Bachelor's Buttons]]'' (Stirling),
-===Second season (June - November, 1866)===
+===Second Cape Town season (June - November, 1866)===
 This season ran from 18 June, 1866 to 12 November, 1866, again in the [[Harrington Street Theatre]], Cape Town, with a somewhat smaller company, almost half of the original players having left, , including [[Alfred Ray]], [[R.S. Cooper]] and [[Mrs Cooper]], who apparently joined Signor [[F. Santanna]]'s [[Grand Olympic Circus]] in Roggebaai.

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 ===Initial season, Port Elizabeth (November and December 1865)===
-They arrived in Port Elizabeth in November, 1865 and did a short season that opened with a performance of
+They arrived in Port Elizabeth in November, 1865 and did a short season that opened with a performance of ''[[Lucretia Borgia]]'' (Weston).
 ===First Cape Town season (January to May 1866)===

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 A [[J.H. le Roy]] and [[Madame Duret]] (possibly his wife, and the leading actress for the company) first arrived in South Africa, from Mauritius, in November, 1865. They landed in Port Elizabeth, where they gave a short season there with a company that also included [[Miss José]], [[Mattie Aldrich]], [[Mr Browne]] and [[E. Clifton]].
-They then travelled to Cape Town, where they formed a company in 1866 that also included local performers. They leased and had renovated the [[Harrington Street Theatre]] (which they later renamed the [[Theatre Royal]]) and there, as well as select other venues, presented a large number of productions over the course of a number of "seasons" till May 1867, when Le Roy left for England to engage new performers. In the intervening season Madame Duret is the sole lessee of the theatre in Cape Town, and the works are fewer.
+They then travelled to Cape Town, where they formed the [[Le Roy and Duret Company]] in 1866, making use of a number of local performers. They leased and had renovated the [[Harrington Street Theatre]] (which they later renamed the [[Theatre Royal]]) and there, as well as select other venues, presented a large number of productions over the course of a number of "seasons" till May 1867, when Le Roy left for England to engage new performers. In the intervening season Madame Duret is the sole lessee of the theatre in Cape Town, and the works are fewer.
 On Le Roy's return in September 1867, the company was reconstituted and strengthened by the addition of the new players, and went on to perform a few more seasons until 1868, when they finally depart from the Cape.

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 ==The company==
-A [[J.H. le Roy]] and [[Madame Duret]] (possibly his wife, and the leading actress for the company) first arrived in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, from Mauritius in November, 1865. They gave a short season there with a company that also included [[Miss José]], [[Mattie Aldrich]], [[Mr Browne]] and [[Mr Clifton]].
+A [[J.H. le Roy]] and [[Madame Duret]] (possibly his wife, and the leading actress for the company) first arrived in South Africa, from Mauritius, in November, 1865. They landed in Port Elizabeth, where they gave a short season there with a company that also included [[Miss José]], [[Mattie Aldrich]], [[Mr Browne]] and [[E. Clifton]].
 They then travelled to Cape Town, where they formed a company in 1866 that also included local performers. They leased and had renovated the [[Harrington Street Theatre]] (which they later renamed the [[Theatre Royal]]) and there, as well as select other venues, presented a large number of productions over the course of a number of "seasons" till May 1867, when Le Roy left for England to engage new performers. In the intervening season Madame Duret is the sole lessee of the theatre in Cape Town, and the works are fewer.

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−	The [[Le Roy and Duret Company]] is name of a British theatrical company constituted and active in Cape Town between ~~1866~~ and 1868.	+	The [[Le Roy and Duret Company]] is name of a British theatrical company constituted and active in Port Elizabeth and Cape Town between 1865 and 1868.

	Also referred to as [[Le Roy and Duret]], [[Leroy and Duret]], [[Le Roy-Duret Company]], [[Leroy's Original Company]], [[Leroy's Company]] or [[Le Roy's Company]]. Also found inverted here and there, i.e. [[Duret and Le Roy]], etc.		Also referred to as [[Le Roy and Duret]], [[Leroy and Duret]], [[Le Roy-Duret Company]], [[Leroy's Original Company]], [[Leroy's Company]] or [[Le Roy's Company]]. Also found inverted here and there, i.e. [[Duret and Le Roy]], etc.